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originally posted by: marshaxt
a reply to: Byrd
Privacy laws?
This is where i have a problem.
If there a public database of useful medical data on covid patients we might not even need tracing apps
This is a terrible invasion of privacy and liberty and nobody has a problem with it
Hospitals could get the patients to sign a waiver to uplaod information on a public medical database and only report the region where the data was uploaded
They haven't even tried it
yes I saw some of those papers and i find them frustrating
Time is of the essence
They were only looking at only subset of data . it was analysed by a bunch of people who could come up with zero new information. some other team might have done better
The information needs to be shared more efficiently and faster in a worldwide database...
[...]“Five [Theodore Roosevelt] sailors who previously tested Covid positive and met rigorous recovery criteria have retested positive,” Navy spokesperson Commander Myers Vasquez said in a statement, [...]
The five sailors developed influenza-like illness symptoms
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Recent developments in flu vaccines may be relevant. In October 2019 the UK was the first country in Europe to introduce Flucelvax Tetra, which was touted as 36% more effective. Until then, flu vaccines were always produced in hens’ eggs, which are a good incubator for the virus. For the UK alone, around 50 million eggs were needed for the annual vaccine supply. The new vaccine, however, is created in vats of cells from dogs’ kidneys, which are more similar to ours than those of chickens.
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Despite some contrary cases, it is interesting that the countries with highest death rates (Belgium, Spain, Italy, UK, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland and USA) had all vaccinated at least half of their elderly population against flu.
A simple test shows a statistically significant correlation of 0.7 (the maximum is 1). Of course, correlation is not causation, and the disproportionately high Covid-19 death tolls could be explained by other factors. However, the variation is likely to be multifactorial, and the flu vaccine should be considered in broader post-mortem investigation of this pandemic.
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Vaccines may cause new resistant strains of viruses to develop, through natural selection. As reported in BMC Medicine by Alehouse and Scarpino, whooping cough outbreaks have infected vaccinated as well as unvaccinated people. Mandating of the chickenpox vaccine in the USA appears to have weakened the immunity gained from the naturally-acquired disease; a review by Goldman and King in Vaccine journal showed increasing incidence of shingles. Studies (e.g. Skowronski et al, 2010) indicated that people receiving the flu vaccine in one year were more likely to contract the H1N1 strain in the following year.
originally posted by: McGinty
originally posted by: drussell41
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Hmm, mysterious! Any code breakers here?
Not sure of their death rate, appears low but lets wait and see how things pan out over the next 2 weeks. Brazil is similar, high infections but low death rate reported.
originally posted by: InterplanetaryHobo
a reply to: RP2SticksOfDynamite
While their (Russia) infection rate is rising, presently their 'official' death rate is low (2,418). It might be intriguing to see where their death rate stands a few weeks from now. See if maybe they have a cure, or a protecal that reduces death from this disease.